Tag: preston
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Permanent Record
I spent my school years being told that things would go on my permanent record. But it looks like that's not so-permanent as I was lead to believe.
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[Bloganuary] Alumnus
Bloganuary wants to know what colleges I've attended. Let's take a tour of my experience of further education.
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Holidays in the Age of COVID
Dan takes a three-week block off work and does many, many things with his family.
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Found GC4F48A Wasted Treasure or Faded Relic?
This checkin to GC4F48A Wasted Treasure or Faded Relic? reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An extended search by me, fleeblewidget, our kids, my mother, my sisters, their friends, and their kids eventually found this well-concealed container. Thanks for the history lesson, greetings from Oxfordshire, and TFTC!
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Found GC7TY87 A walk in Moor Park
This checkin to GC7TY87 A walk in Moor Park reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Easy find (thanks to the clue in a recent log) while walking with fleeblewidget, our kids, and some of my family. Log too wet to sign. TFTC.
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Bus Station, Unbound
After five months of playing it, on-and-off, Dan finally gets around to reviewing Bus Station: Unbound, a piece of hypertext interactive fiction set in Preston Bus Station.
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Surprises, e.g. a Brother-in-Law
While on the way to a stag night in Edinburgh, Dan stops to perform magic in Preston and is surprised to discover that his sister has secretly gotten married.
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Godzilla's Family Vlog Review - Episode 6
This review went a little bit meta, on account of the fact that I feature both as the reviewer and also as a subject of Godzilla's sixth weekly Family Vlog itself. So ultimately, I end up reviewing an episode with me in. Clearly the bits with me in were the best.
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Instead Of Blogging...
In a declaration of 'blog bankruptcy', Dan lists all of the topics that he'd hoped to have blogged about during the last (very busy!) month, and gets on with writing about other things. He's been busy!
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Busy Weekends Part I
The weekend before the weekend before last, Ruth, JTA and I went up to Preston, for:
My Sister's Birthday
My sister, Sarah, turned 21 at the start of this month, and we - accompanied by her friends and family - went out to a new Punjabi restaurant called East Z East. The food was fantastic (although in … -
Snow Day Like Today
Dan and Paul brave heavy snowfall to take a series of trains from Aberystwyth to Preston for Christmas.
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This repost was published in hindsight, on 12 March 2019.
Ruth wrote:
Since I last posted, I've been fairly busy, one way and another. First, Dan and I travelled up to Preston where I was forced to allow that it isn't a complete pit after all because it does have a couple … -
Hoghton Tower
Claire and I just got back from a weekend in Preston, taking the opportunity to visit my folks as well as to (as is now traditional) go to the annual "Symphony at the Tower" at Hoghton Tower (which Ruth and I buzzed by hot air balloon on our way back from Scotland, earlier this year).
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Quickly, Before They Turn The Glass Into Lesbians!
So, what have I been up to this weekend, you ask. Well...
"Cover The Mirrors" Launch Party
On Friday I took the train up to Preston. The train I was on broke down at Machynlleth when they linked it up to the carriages that had come down the Pwllheli line, and the repairs set me … -
Not Quite Where We Planned To Be
Claire and I are in Preston. Let me explain how this came about.
As I mentioned, we spent Friday night and most of Saturday in Gregynog, a beautiful stately home owned by the University of Wales and used as a conference venue. Every year, the Computer Science department ships almost the entirety of the second year …